I agreed with Angela’s claim in her post that the two instances of justice in both Earnest J. Gaines’ and J. K. Rowling’s novels were examples of how “the legal system is controlled by the superior.” In Gaines’ novel  A Lesson Before Dying, the whites dominated the legal system as both the judge and the jury were entirely composed of white men. Grant questioned the justice of the legal system by pondering upon the justice of Jefferson’s conviction when “[t]welve white men say a black man must die, and another white man sets the date and time without consulting one black person” (Gaines 157). Clearly, it is difficult to accept the justice of the legal system for the conviction of a black man by a court occupied completely by the opposite race.

In Rowling’s novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, injustice was evident when Sirius Black was wrongly accused for the betrayal of Harry’s parents and the death of multiple innocent lives. Here, I further agreed with Angela when she stated that The Minister of Magic solely wanted to kill Black to prove the department’s capability in capturing and punishing a loose criminal. Black’s escape, indeed, tainted the professionalism and reputation of The Minister of Magic and, similar to what Angela also claimed in her post, to restore the department’s competency, “Black must be convicted whether he is innocent or [guilty].”